02-03-2009, 07:02 PM
FYI, the boy in this story (Shaya) is Jewish. This story first appeared in the book "Echoes of the Maggid" by Rabbi Paysach Krohn. Rabbi Krohn says that the story is true and was told to him by the boy's father, who is a friend of Rabbi Krohn. The school mentioned in this story is the "Jewish Center for Special Education" in Brooklyn, New York, a school for Yiddish speaking children of Orthodox Hasidic Jews.